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Jolly Fellows

Original title: Весёлые ребята

★ 6.4 TMDB Rating · 22 votes

Merry Fellows was the first Soviet musical comedy. Set in Odessa and Moscow in the 1930s. Shepherd Kostya Potekhin is mistaken for an international concert star. He falls in love with Anyuta and plays the "star" for her. In a cascade of comic musical numbers he becomes the leader of a Jazz-Band and gives a hilarious show at the Odessa Music Hall. Now he is destined to perform at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.

Director
Grigori Aleksandrov
Release date
Dec 9, 1934
Original language
Russian
Origin
Russia

Cast of Jolly Fellows

  • Portrait of Leonid Utyosov

    Leonid Utyosov

    Kostya Potekhin

  • Portrait of Lyubov Orlova

    Lyubov Orlova

    Anyuta, the housemaid

  • Portrait of Mariya Strelkova

    Mariya Strelkova

    Yelena, child of the Foreign Trade Union

  • Portrait of Fyodor Kurikhin

    Fyodor Kurikhin

    Mortician

  • Portrait of Emmanuil Geller

    Emmanuil Geller

    Music-hall audience member (uncredited)

  • Portrait of Yelena Tyapkina

    Yelena Tyapkina

    Anyuta's stepmother

  • Portrait of Niki Otto

    Niki Otto

    Musician, fight instigator

  • Portrait of Arnold Arnold

    Arnold Arnold

    Fraschini, the conductor from Paraguay

  • Robert Erdman

    German music teacher

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